{"id":19752,"date":"2026-02-07T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19752"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:03:12","slug":"nba-star-giannis-antetokounmpo-joins-kalshi-as-an-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19752","title":{"rendered":"NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo joins Kalshi as an investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks announced Friday that he has joined prediction market Kalshi as a shareholder, making him the first NBA player to invest directly in the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe internet is full of opinions. I decided it was time to make some of my own,\u201d said the two-time NBA MVP <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUbnCj1krHJ\/?igsh=NWVoeXhqemp0czVr\">in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cToday, I\u2019m joining Kalshi as a shareholder. We all on Kalshi now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement has not gone over well on social media. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nba\/comments\/1qxuoph\/giannis_one_day_postdeadline_has_announced_his\/\">On Reddit<\/a>, for example, one user described it as \u201cliterally a conflict of interest,\u201d while another described Kalshi as \u201ccancerous\u201d and yet another wondered, \u201cis this even allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7028388\/2026\/02\/06\/giannis-antetokounmpo-kalshi-nba-prediction-market\/\">According to The Athletic<\/a>, the NBA\u2019s recent collective bargaining agreement allows players to advertise and take stakes of up to 1% in sports betting companies, as long as they\u2019re not promoting league-related wagers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kalshi said it will partner with Antetokounmpo on marketing and live events \u2014 and in accordance with the company\u2019s \u201cstrict terms of service that ban insider trading and market manipulation,\u201d he will not be allowed to trade on markets related to the NBA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/07\/nba-star-giannis-antetokounmpo-joins-kalshi-as-an-investor\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo of the M&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}